The Gayapsi is a purification and blessing ceremony with an especially auspicious quality in Tibetan Buddhism. It cleanses individuals, homes, and environments of impurities—in energetic and karmic dimensions as well as the everyday sense.
The rite uses purification deities, blessed substances, incense, consecrated water sprinkling, and mantras chosen to cleanse and renew. Sponsors often report a sense of lightness afterward.
It is performed at Tibetan New Year, after illness or misfortune, after a death to cleanse the home, when life feels stuck, or to bless a new dwelling before an important beginning.
Gayapsi supports long-distance sponsorship: names and intentions are offered while monks perform the ceremonial practice at the monastery, with merit dedicated to sponsors.
Purpose: Purification, blessing, renewal.
Duration: Half day.